Louis Pasteur Accomplishments

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Everyday around the world every person on the planet is affected by the discoveries of Louis Pasteur. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France on December, 27, 1822. Due to the work of Louis Pasteur, people no longer have to worry about consuming unsafe foods, or getting bacterial infections during surgery, or dying from rabies after being bitten by an animal. Louis Pasteur has been recognized as one of the world. Because Pasteur developed the process of pasteurization, molecular asymmetry, Germ theory of fermentation and spontaneous generation.

Louis Pasteur's childhood was quite different than many kids back then. Unlike many kids at the time, Louis Pasteur liked working with pastels. But when his father heard of this he stopped the idea and told him that he would be going to school. Louis Pasteur grew up in a very small town named Dole, France and he was born on December, 27, 1822. He …show more content…

But in his late years he had many strokes and it didn't stop him from discovering things he just was not as fast at it as he was in his early life. He had a stroke in 1867 and it partially paralyzed him and made it very difficult to do research, but he still did it anyway! In his later life he did not necessarily discover anything, but even though he couldn't discover that doesn't mean that his research that he did didn’t mean anything. In his later life he did more discoveries with rabies and how if the vaccine wasn't discovered that a lot more people would have died from rabies. Also a few years from when he died when he was 70 he was able to meet two very important scientists named, British surgeon and Joseph Lister, in which really adored Pasteur's work and what he did. But unfortunately a few years later he had passed away. The main reason that he passed away was that his paralyzation worsened and he could then no longer

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